From: thefed <fedzor@...>
Date: 2008-01-01T08:56:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way to download >1GB files


On Dec 31, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Tim Hunter wrote:

> Not precisely what you asked for, but this is how ara t. howard  
> told me to download large files, using open-uri. This gets one 8kb  
> sized chunk at a time:
>
>         open(uri) do |fin|
>           open(File.basename(uri), "w") do |fout|
>             while (buf = fin.read(8192))
>               fout.write buf
>             end
>           end
>         end

But doesn't open-uri download the whole thing to your compy? I was  
about to use it, but then I ran it in irb and saw it returned a file  
object.

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